ferrovalley

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noun

A ferromagnetic valley (local minimum)

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounferrovalley (plural ferrovalleys)

plural ferrovalleys

  1. chemistryA ferromagnetic valley (local minimum)

    On account of the latter, a series of functional devices based on ferrovalley materials, such as valley-based nonvolatile random access memory, valley filter, are contemplated for valleytronic applications..

    2016, Wen-Yi Tong, Shi-Jing Gong, Xiangang Wan, Chun-Gang Duan, “The Concept of Ferrovalley Material and Anomalous Valley Hall Effect”, in arXiv

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